From the archive

August 2018

27 posts

New 3D Printers from XYZprinting, including a 3D Copier?

Extending their da Vinci range, XYZprinting have announced two new 3D printers at IFA this year, along with 3D project curriculum packs to help teachers and educators. The first new model is in the mini series which is aimed at families and the home market. The da Vinci Color Mini is a fused filament fabrication (FFF) printer with an improved air fan for

Skin Care Gets Smart with HiMirror

HiMirror's range of smart mirrors aim to be "your at-home beauty and health consultant", and use high resolution digital cameras to record and assess skin condition including wrinkles, fine lines, clarity, dark circles, dark spots, red spots and pores to both identify problem areas and track improvement. Simply, the smart mirror takes a picture of the face, analyses it and recommends

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Apple Phone Event

Apple phone event is on Sept 12th and we are expecting some new phone size entrances. Google is in the political firing line, and I hope I bring a civil conversation to a conversation that is percolating out there. Plus a pile of tech news. I also update all of you on some thoughts I have about CES 2019 and

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Uber’s Annoying Expansion

Sorry for no show on Thursday last week things went sideways for me making it impossible to do the show. We have added a few insiders to the podcast and I want to thank them for their support in our value for value programming. We want to encourage the audience in becoming insiders this is a great time to support

Delete Old Text Messages with R-Bot SMS Cleaner

Messaging is one of the killer apps for mobile devices and has followed the industry from first mobile phones through to the smartphones of today. It began with SMS, became notorious with Blackberry, integrated with social media and then became a battleground with law enforcement as end-to-end encryption kept conversations private. Even with all these developments, SMS texting remains a

DJI Introduces Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom

This is the new DJI Mavic 2. Available as the Pro Edition with a @Hasselblad camera and 1" CMOS sensor and the Zoom Edition with 4x lossless zoom in full HD video.Find more information or get yours now at https://t.co/YapGqYdmUQ pic.twitter.com/tMNfaU5Fl4

How to Backup WhatsApp with Google Drive

An email from the Google Drive Team dropped into my inbox earlier this week to let me know that from November any WhatsApp backups won't count against my storage quota on Google Drive. It's welcome news especially for heavy WhatsApp users with the basic 15 GB Drive allowance. Unaware that WhatsApp did backups? It's worth checking out as it's one

Twitch Removes Universal Ad-Free Viewing from Twitch Prime

Beginning 9/14, ad-free viewing will no longer be part of #TwitchPrime for new members. You can still get ad-free viewing on a channel by using your Twitch Prime sub, if the creator has this enabled. Learn more: https://t.co/yGRe9prKqb

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Netflix Ads Between Episodes

Ok, folks, I am live as it can be from the great state of Texas. Heavily jet lagged and sugar-free Lime Red Bull takes me through the show production. Are you ready for commercials on Netflix? Nope, neither am I but that may be the future of Netflix. Let us hope not as that would seem to go against everything

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Losers at MoviePass

In a desperate bid to stay in business MoviePass today dropped the hammer and further limited the viability of the service. It's if they are asking users to abandon the service. The key for me was I could watch any movie I wanted on the schedule I wanted. Now they are dictating times which is annoying. They are not going

Discord is Going to Bring the Games to You

Discord announced some updates that are currently being rolled out in beta. A curated group of games will be aded to Discord Nitro. Discord will also be launching a curated game store. Today, we're slowly rolling out a beta test to about 50,000 of our Canadian players and will be expanding to more over time. These players will see an

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